Why don%26#039;t they recyle electricity? I%26#039;ve read some articles and they said it requires more energy than it would gain.

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2 months ago

Since electricity travels from one wire through your device and then goes back to the power company and the power company just discard it. Why can%26#039;t it be converted back to usable electricity again? That%26#039;s what I%26#039;m getting at.

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• There is no where to store the electricity. At night there is as much electricity produced as in the daytime, but there is no place to store it so it is just wasted. That is why you should charge things like batteries and cell phones etc over night.
  
  They could store the electricity in batteries but it would take a lot of them and we would run out of room to store them.
• E.g., you burn electricity to light a lightbulb, and theoretically you could take the heat from the bulb and use that to generate electricity. However, there%26#039;s no way to capture enough heat from the bulb to generate enough electricity to keep another bulb going. Besides, the device used to collect the bulb%26#039;s heat would block the light.
• You have no concept of how electricity works do you?
  
  Just take their word for it. They are right and it would take a long time to explain why.
• i guess its like purpetual motion or however you spell it.
• The electrons are just too tired.